Friday, 12 July 2013

A New Wrinkle in BYOD Adoption

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A New Wrinkle in BYOD Adoption: Users Don't Trust IT with Their Personal Data
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by Rod Trent
Here's a new take on the whole BYOD phenomenon. Aruba Networks recently took a different angle in a survey to report on BYOD. For the longest time we've been focusing on the technology and IT side of BYOD, because, frankly, it has been lacking. But, this new report from Aruba Networks integrates the sentiment of the actual users of the personal devices on the corporate network.

As IT Pros, we've known for years that end-users consider us a necessary evil that is most times helpful but sometimes condescending. I mean, c'mon, who can't work the right mouse button these days? But, it seems, the negativity toward IT has surfaced again for BYOD and is driving a wedge further between IT and the business users, and possibly slowing BYOD adoption.

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